1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000036855

Titolo

Hellenica Oxyrhynchia / post Victorium Bartoletti edidit Mortimer Chambers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stutgardiae et Lipsiae : in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1993

Titolo uniforme

Hellenica Oxyrhynchia

ISBN

3-8154-1365-6

Descrizione fisica

XLVII, 96 p., 4 p. di tav. : ill. ; 21 cm

Collana

Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana

Disciplina

938

Lingua di pubblicazione

Greco antico

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996393492303316

Titolo

An abridgement of the English military discipline [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker ..., 1676

Descrizione fisica

[2], 82 p. : ill

Soggetti

Military law - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"By His Majesties Permission."

Reproduction of original in: Christ Church (University of Oxford). Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0026



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791813603321

Titolo

A history of the book in America . Volume 1 The Colonial book in the Atlantic world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Hugh Amory and David D. Hall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, N.C., : Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8078-6800-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (665 p.)

Collana

A history of the book in America ; ; v. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

AmoryHugh

HallDavid D

Disciplina

381.450020973

381/.45002/0973

Soggetti

Book industries and trade - United States - History - 18th century

Publishers and publishing - United States - History - 18th century

Books and reading - United States - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Authors' and Editors' Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART 1. Some Contexts and Questions; PART 2. The Europeans' Encounter with Native Americans; CHAPTER 1 Reinventing the Colonial Book; CHAPTER 2 The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century; CHAPTER 3 Printing and Bookselling in New England, 1638-1713; CHAPTER 4 Readers and Writers in Early New England; CHAPTER 5 The Atlantic World; PART 1. The Atlantic Economy in the Eighteenth Century; PART 2. Printers' Supplies and Capitalization

PART 3. The Importation of Books in the Eighteenth CenturyCHAPTER 6 The Book Trade in the Middle Colonies, 1680-1720; CHAPTER 7 The Southern Book Trade in the Eighteenth Century; CHAPTER 8 The Middle Colonies, 1720-1790; PART 1. English Books and Printing in the Age of Franklin; PART 2. German and Dutch Books and Printing; CHAPTER 9 The New England Book Trade, 1713-1790; CHAPTER 10 Periodicals and Politics; PART 1. Early American Journalism: News and Opinion in the Popular Press; PART 2. The Shifting Freedoms of the Press in the Eighteenth Century; CHAPTER 11 Practices of Reading



IntroductionPART 1. Literacy and Schoolbooks; PART 2. Customers and the Market for Books; PART 3. Libraries and Their Users; PART 4. Modalities of Reading; CHAPTER 12 Learned Culture in the Eighteenth Century; CHAPTER 13 Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture; Afterword; A Select Bibliography; Appendix 1. A Note on Statistics; Appendix 2. A Note on Popular and Durable Authors and Titles; Appendix 3. A Note on Book Prices; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Volume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evidenced in modes of intellectual and cultural exchange and the dominance of imported, chiefly English books; the gradual emergence of a competitive book trade in which newspapers were the largest form of production; and the institution of a ""culture of the Word,"" organized around a